Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - May 2012

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2012.

Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are seeing blooms in mid-May that we don't normally see until early June, including those of the Japanese tree lilac, Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk'. 

This is good because the other lilacs in the garden which would normally bloom in time to cut a big bouquet of them for